My Year in Books

I’ve decided to start measuring my years by what I’ve read. I took a significant break from reading books after I graduated from college, and slowly I have been adding them back into my life.

Yes, even working two jobs, married and with a toddler I still find time to read! I like hard copies for some books (totally disconnected from notifications), I like Kindle for a lot of things (I prefer this for more intense study where I might want to search my notes later), and I love Audible for my frequent long car rides!

I’ve found over the past couple years that reading books has helped alleviate anxiety in a way that bingeing TV episodes never does. The books that I choose to read take me out of a negative self-analyzing space in my head into a productive and growth minded space where I find myself stronger and more passionate about making changes in my life. I really owe my resurgence of reading to my side-gig. Without the mentorship and personal growth focus of that company I would not read nearly as many books as I have in the past year and a half!

What follows is a list of the books I have purchased and at least partly read in 2017, followed by a list of books I would like to read in 2018! I’d love your suggestions!

This one is slower going that I anticipated. It’s definitely helping me work through a bunch of mental blocks in my life, but not something I can power through in 40 days as the title suggests. Still working my way through this.

Read the whole thing with my husband! Love love love this book. It was a cozy book to read together and it was fun to talk about forming our own family traditions and things that we’d like to implement into our day-to-day life. I’m a total Scandi-phile now… if that’s a word???

A fiction! (You may notice I don’t read much fiction. I’m insanely picky about it.) I picked this one up on vacation last summer. It was fairly captivating, but not enough to finish after the weekend was over.

Yes, there was a bit of a money theme to this year as I began to realize I did not have a healthy mindset about money.

Did not make it all the way through this book. Got really annoyed with the personality of the author. He has some interesting points and it’s a compelling comparison, but I don’t always love his conclusions and don’t admire his character very much, so it was hard to listen to his advice.

Gold in book form. I would definitely like to purchase this in Kindle form so I can go back through it and take notes. The compound effect is constantly on my mind now when it comes to making small day to day decisions.

I used to read almost exclusively religious books. Now I can’t stomach more than one or two a year. I just finished this book last week. It brought me great comfort and really articulated well the spiritual stage I seem to be going through. Beautiful book.

I don’t remember how I found this book or why I decided to pick it up. But it’s very fascinating! It’s a good book to listen to when I need to just detach from all serious thought for awhile and immerse myself in another world altogether. It’s a good bedtime book actually, despite being about food. I haven’t finished this yet since I recently started it.